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# 1.8 09-Apr-2022 riastradh

Introduce membar_acquire/release. Deprecate membar_enter/exit.

The names membar_enter/exit were unclear, and the documentation of
membar_enter has disagreed with the implementations on sparc,
powerpc, and even x86(!) for the entire time it has been in NetBSD.

The terms `acquire' and `release' are ubiquitous in the literature
today, and have been adopted in the C and C++ standards to mean
load-before-load/store and load/store-before-store, respectively,
which are exactly the orderings required by acquiring and releasing a
mutex, as well as other useful applications like decrementing a
reference count and then freeing the underlying object if it went to
zero.

Originally I proposed changing one word in the documentation for
membar_enter to make it load-before-load/store instead of
store-before-load/store, i.e., to make it an acquire barrier. I
proposed this on the grounds that

(a) all implementations guarantee load-before-load/store,
(b) some implementations fail to guarantee store-before-load/store,
and
(c) all uses in-tree assume load-before-load/store.

I verified parts (a) and (b) (except, for (a), powerpc didn't even
guarantee load-before-load/store -- isync isn't necessarily enough;
need lwsync in general -- but it _almost_ did, and it certainly didn't
guarantee store-before-load/store).

Part (c) might not be correct, however: under the mistaken assumption
that atomic-r/m/w then membar-w/rw is equivalent to atomic-r/m/w then
membar-r/rw, I only audited the cases of membar_enter that _aren't_
immediately after an atomic-r/m/w. All of those cases assume
load-before-load/store. But my assumption was wrong -- there are
cases of atomic-r/m/w then membar-w/rw that would be broken by
changing to atomic-r/m/w then membar-r/rw:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2022/03/29/msg028044.html

Furthermore, the name membar_enter has been adopted in other places
like OpenBSD where it actually does follow the documentation and
guarantee store-before-load/store, even if that order is not useful.
So the name membar_enter currently lives in a bad place where it
means either of two things -- r/rw or w/rw.

With this change, we deprecate membar_enter/exit, introduce
membar_acquire/release as better names for the useful pair (r/rw and
rw/w), and make sure the implementation of membar_enter guarantees
both what was documented _and_ what was implemented, making it an
alias for membar_sync.

While here, rework all of the membar_* definitions and aliases. The
new logic follows a rule to make it easier to audit:

membar_X is defined as an alias for membar_Y iff membar_X is
guaranteed by membar_Y.

The `no stronger than' relation is (the transitive closure of):

- membar_consumer (r/r) is guaranteed by membar_acquire (r/rw)
- membar_producer (w/w) is guaranteed by membar_release (rw/w)
- membar_acquire (r/rw) is guaranteed by membar_sync (rw/rw)
- membar_release (rw/w) is guaranteed by membar_sync (rw/rw)

And, for the deprecated membars:

- membar_enter (whether r/rw, w/rw, or rw/rw) is guaranteed by
membar_sync (rw/rw)
- membar_exit (rw/w) is guaranteed by membar_release (rw/w)

(membar_exit is identical to membar_release, but the name is
deprecated.)

Finally, while here, annotate some of the instructions with their
semantics. For powerpc, leave an essay with citations on the
unfortunate but -- as far as I can tell -- necessary decision to use
lwsync, not isync, for membar_acquire and membar_consumer.

Also add membar(3) and atomic(3) man page links.


# 1.7 09-Apr-2022 riastradh

sparc/membar_ops: Upgrade membar_enter from R/RW to RW/RW.

This will be deprecated soon but let's avoid leaving rakes to trip on
with it arising from disagreement over the documentation (W/RW) and
implementation and usage (R/RW).


# 1.6 09-Apr-2022 riastradh

sparc: Fix membar_sync with LDSTUB.

membar_sync is required to be a full sequential consistency barrier,
equivalent to MEMBAR #StoreStore|LoadStore|StoreLoad|LoadLoad on
sparcv9. LDSTUB and SWAP are the only pre-v9 instructions that do
this and SWAP doesn't exist on all v7 hardware, so use LDSTUB.

Note: I'm having a hard time nailing down a reference for the
ordering implied by LDSTUB and SWAP. I'm _pretty sure_ SWAP has to
imply store-load ordering since the SPARCv8 manual recommends it for
Dekker's algorithm (which notoriously requires store-load ordering),
and the formal memory model treats LDSTUB and SWAP the same for
ordering. But the v8 and v9 manuals aren't clear.

GCC issues STBAR and LDSTUB, but (a) I don't see why STBAR is
necessary here, (b) STBAR doesn't exist on v7 so it'd be a pain to
use, and (c) from what I've heard (although again it's hard to nail
down authoritative references here) all actual SPARC hardware is TSO
or SC anyway so STBAR is a noop in all the silicon anyway.

Either way, certainly this is better than what we had before, which
was nothing implying ordering at all, just a store!


# 1.5 06-Apr-2022 riastradh

Nix trailing whitespace in files of membars, atomics, and lock stubs.

Will be touching many of these files soon for functional changes.

No functional change intended.


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# 1.4 25-May-2008 chs

branches: 1.4.62;
enable profiling of assembly functions.


Revision tags: hpcarm-cleanup-nbase yamt-pf42-base2 yamt-nfs-mp-base2
# 1.3 28-Apr-2008 martin

branches: 1.3.2;
Remove clause 3 and 4 from TNF licenses


Revision tags: yamt-pf42-baseX yamt-nfs-mp-base yamt-pf42-base yamt-lazymbuf-base15 yamt-lazymbuf-base14 hpcarm-cleanup-base keiichi-mipv6-base matt-armv6-base matt-armv6-nbase yamt-kmem-base3 cube-autoconf-base yamt-kmem-base2 yamt-kmem-base reinoud-bufcleanup-nbase reinoud-bufcleanup-base
# 1.2 29-Nov-2007 ad

branches: 1.2.4; 1.2.8;
Fix the aliases.


# 1.1 29-Nov-2007 ad

sparc atomic ops


# 1.5 06-Apr-2022 riastradh

Nix trailing whitespace in files of membars, atomics, and lock stubs.

Will be touching many of these files soon for functional changes.

No functional change intended.


Revision tags: cjep_sun2x-base1 cjep_sun2x-base cjep_staticlib_x-base1 netbsd-9-2-RELEASE cjep_staticlib_x-base netbsd-9-1-RELEASE bouyer-xenpvh-base2 phil-wifi-20200421 bouyer-xenpvh-base1 bouyer-xenpvh-base phil-wifi-20200411 is-mlppp-base phil-wifi-20200406 netbsd-8-2-RELEASE ad-namecache-base3 netbsd-9-0-RELEASE netbsd-9-0-RC2 ad-namecache-base netbsd-9-0-RC1 phil-wifi-20191119 netbsd-9-base phil-wifi-20190609 netbsd-8-1-RELEASE netbsd-8-1-RC1 pgoyette-compat-merge-20190127 pgoyette-compat-20190127 pgoyette-compat-20190118 pgoyette-compat-1226 pgoyette-compat-1126 pgoyette-compat-1020 pgoyette-compat-0930 pgoyette-compat-0906 netbsd-7-2-RELEASE pgoyette-compat-0728 netbsd-8-0-RELEASE phil-wifi-base pgoyette-compat-0625 netbsd-8-0-RC2 pgoyette-compat-0521 pgoyette-compat-0502 pgoyette-compat-0422 netbsd-8-0-RC1 pgoyette-compat-0415 pgoyette-compat-0407 pgoyette-compat-0330 pgoyette-compat-0322 pgoyette-compat-0315 netbsd-7-1-2-RELEASE pgoyette-compat-base netbsd-7-1-1-RELEASE tls-maxphys-20171202 matt-nb8-mediatek-base perseant-stdc-iso10646-base netbsd-8-base prg-localcount2-base3 prg-localcount2-base2 prg-localcount2-base1 prg-localcount2-base pgoyette-localcount-20170426 bouyer-socketcan-base1 pgoyette-localcount-20170320 netbsd-7-1-RELEASE netbsd-7-1-RC2 netbsd-7-nhusb-base-20170116 bouyer-socketcan-base pgoyette-localcount-20170107 netbsd-7-1-RC1 pgoyette-localcount-20161104 netbsd-7-0-2-RELEASE localcount-20160914 netbsd-7-nhusb-base pgoyette-localcount-20160806 pgoyette-localcount-20160726 pgoyette-localcount-base netbsd-7-0-1-RELEASE netbsd-7-0-RELEASE netbsd-7-0-RC3 netbsd-7-0-RC2 netbsd-7-0-RC1 netbsd-5-2-3-RELEASE netbsd-5-1-5-RELEASE netbsd-6-0-6-RELEASE netbsd-6-1-5-RELEASE netbsd-7-base yamt-pagecache-base9 yamt-pagecache-tag8 netbsd-6-1-4-RELEASE netbsd-6-0-5-RELEASE tls-earlyentropy-base riastradh-xf86-video-intel-2-7-1-pre-2-21-15 riastradh-drm2-base3 netbsd-6-1-3-RELEASE netbsd-6-0-4-RELEASE netbsd-5-2-2-RELEASE netbsd-5-1-4-RELEASE netbsd-6-1-2-RELEASE netbsd-6-0-3-RELEASE netbsd-5-2-1-RELEASE netbsd-5-1-3-RELEASE rmind-smpnet-nbase netbsd-6-1-1-RELEASE riastradh-drm2-base2 riastradh-drm2-base1 riastradh-drm2-base rmind-smpnet-base netbsd-6-0-2-RELEASE netbsd-6-1-RELEASE netbsd-6-1-RC4 netbsd-6-1-RC3 agc-symver-base netbsd-6-1-RC2 netbsd-6-1-RC1 yamt-pagecache-base8 netbsd-6-0-1-RELEASE yamt-pagecache-base7 netbsd-5-2-RELEASE netbsd-5-2-RC1 matt-nb6-plus-nbase yamt-pagecache-base6 netbsd-6-0-RELEASE netbsd-6-0-RC2 tls-maxphys-base matt-nb6-plus-base netbsd-6-0-RC1 yamt-pagecache-base5 yamt-pagecache-base4 netbsd-6-base netbsd-5-1-2-RELEASE netbsd-5-1-1-RELEASE yamt-pagecache-base3 yamt-pagecache-base2 yamt-pagecache-base cherry-xenmp-base bouyer-quota2-nbase bouyer-quota2-base matt-mips64-premerge-20101231 matt-nb5-mips64-premerge-20101231 matt-nb5-pq3-base netbsd-5-1-RELEASE yamt-nfs-mp-base11 netbsd-5-1-RC4 matt-nb5-mips64-k15 yamt-nfs-mp-base10 netbsd-5-1-RC3 netbsd-5-1-RC2 netbsd-5-1-RC1 rmind-uvmplock-base yamt-nfs-mp-base9 netbsd-5-0-2-RELEASE matt-nb5-mips64-premerge-20091211 matt-premerge-20091211 yamt-nfs-mp-base8 matt-nb5-mips64-u2-k2-k4-k7-k8-k9 matt-nb4-mips64-k7-u2a-k9b matt-nb5-mips64-u1-k1-k5 yamt-nfs-mp-base7 netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE jymxensuspend-base yamt-nfs-mp-base6 yamt-nfs-mp-base5 yamt-nfs-mp-base4 jym-xensuspend-nbase yamt-nfs-mp-base3 netbsd-5-0-RELEASE netbsd-5-0-RC4 netbsd-5-0-RC3 netbsd-5-0-RC2 jym-xensuspend-base netbsd-5-0-RC1 netbsd-5-base matt-mips64-base2 wrstuden-revivesa-base-3 wrstuden-revivesa-base-2 wrstuden-revivesa-base-1 yamt-pf42-base4 yamt-pf42-base3 wrstuden-revivesa-base
# 1.4 25-May-2008 chs

branches: 1.4.62;
enable profiling of assembly functions.


Revision tags: hpcarm-cleanup-nbase yamt-pf42-base2 yamt-nfs-mp-base2
# 1.3 28-Apr-2008 martin

branches: 1.3.2;
Remove clause 3 and 4 from TNF licenses


Revision tags: yamt-pf42-baseX yamt-nfs-mp-base yamt-pf42-base yamt-lazymbuf-base15 yamt-lazymbuf-base14 hpcarm-cleanup-base keiichi-mipv6-base matt-armv6-base matt-armv6-nbase yamt-kmem-base3 cube-autoconf-base yamt-kmem-base2 yamt-kmem-base reinoud-bufcleanup-nbase reinoud-bufcleanup-base
# 1.2 29-Nov-2007 ad

branches: 1.2.4; 1.2.8;
Fix the aliases.


# 1.1 29-Nov-2007 ad

sparc atomic ops


# 1.4 25-May-2008 chs

enable profiling of assembly functions.


# 1.3 28-Apr-2008 martin

branches: 1.3.2;
Remove clause 3 and 4 from TNF licenses


# 1.2 28-Nov-2007 ad

branches: 1.2.4; 1.2.8;
Fix the aliases.


# 1.1 28-Nov-2007 ad

sparc atomic ops


# 1.2.8.2 03-Jun-2008 yamt

sync with head


# 1.2.8.1 18-May-2008 yamt

sync with head.


# 1.2.4.2 08-Jan-2008 matt

sync with HEAD


# 1.2.4.1 28-Nov-2007 matt

file membar_ops.S was added on branch matt-armv6 on 2008-01-09 01:21:08 +0000


# 1.3.2.1 22-Jun-2008 wrstuden

Sync w/ -current. 34 merge conflicts to follow.